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C 11
Of Perjury Falshoods
degrees there are no determinate forms of speech
those only which have just been mentioned.
There are indeed multitudes of words for expressing expressive of
various degrees: such as slightly probable, probable, very probable, highly probable, extremely probable, and so forth but these degrees are none of
them determinate. To p. 14. No 1
From p. 14 No 1
2 A declaration importing doubt may be false as well as one importing certainty. It is plain that for a man person to make a
false declaration it is not absolutely necessary that he should
declare himself either to believe in any degree or
to disbelieve: much less that he should declare himself
absolutely entirely to believe or disbelieve. He may
make a false declaration by declaring himself to
doubt: and his declaration may appear manifestly
to be false, if it appears manifestly improbable
that he should have been in a state of
doubt about the matter: insomuch that the falsity
of it may appear sufficiently manifest to warrant
the convicting him of Perjury Falshood. Thus if suppose a woman
upon being asked whether she ever had a child or
no should were to persist in saying that she did not know;
in such case if she were in other respects of sound
memory it must be manifest that in so answering
she must have been guilty of Falshood Perjury: this being
a fact which if it ever happen'd it is impossible
a woman should forget, and which if it never
happen'd it is impossible she should imagine. To p. 13. No 2
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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